Cara Delevingne's sheer dress and the trend for going bare down there
This year's iteration was no different, yet it was the sheer knickers that raised eyebrows. In some ways, it's no surprise. After all, in recent seasons, we've had the trend for sheer skirts with visible big knickers making its way on to the red carpet. Kick-started by Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent and Chloé, it has been championed by A-listers including Florence Pugh, Dua Lipa and Victoria Beckham. Yet this year's red carpet didn't showcase Bridget Jones-esque bloomers through a mesh skirt – it put lacy knickers front and centre, or indeed, no knickers at all.
One of the most controversial looks of the evening was that worn by K-pop star Lisa, of Blackpink fame, recently catapulted to even further global stardom thanks to her breakout role in the third season of The White Lotus. Wearing a piece custom-made by one of the night's co-chairs, Pharrell Williams at Louis Vuitton, her black beaded crop jacket with tights and pants probably wouldn't have caused much of a stir if it wasn't for what was embroidered on to her knickers: the face of civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
Going one step further was the actor Halle Berry, who forewent underwear on her lower half altogether. Her daring LaQuan Smith gown featured sheer vertical stripes, which meant that whenever she moved, she risked showing more than she perhaps wanted to, drawing outrage from commenters online who deemed her look offensive and disappointing.
In many ways, the evolution of the sheer trend is unsurprising. After all, fashion has always sought to find new ways to shock – as well as to highlight women's body parts. It's why corsets were so popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, or why an ankle was considered the height of erotica in the Victorian period. In more recent history, we've had Alexander McQueen's bumster jeans, Tom Ford for Gucci's G-string, and even the posterior-peekaboo in Zoe Kravitz's Yves Saint Laurent dress at the Vanity Fair Oscars party.
To provoke is fashion's raison d'être – particularly on a red carpet. And it's worked, hasn't it? That's why we're talking about it now.
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